The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . lowering ones, elongated, flexible, sometimes bristle-like, 10 to12 cm. long, yellow or even white; flowers 10 cm. long, the ovary and tube covered with long brownhairs; fruit globular, about 3 cm. in diameter; seeds small, dull black. Type locality: High valleys of Cordilleras of Catamarca and Salta, Argentina. Distribution: Argentina and Bolivia. This species is very characteristic of the high plains of northern Argentina and Bolivia,sometimes growing in valleys, but usually along cliffs and on rocky hillsides, a
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . lowering ones, elongated, flexible, sometimes bristle-like, 10 to12 cm. long, yellow or even white; flowers 10 cm. long, the ovary and tube covered with long brownhairs; fruit globular, about 3 cm. in diameter; seeds small, dull black. Type locality: High valleys of Cordilleras of Catamarca and Salta, Argentina. Distribution: Argentina and Bolivia. This species is very characteristic of the high plains of northern Argentina and Bolivia,sometimes growing in valleys, but usually along cliffs and on rocky hillsides, and often formsthe most conspicuous plant in the landscape. The woody trunks are used for making goatcorrals and rude huts. The fruit, which is said to be edible, is called pasacana. Illustrations: Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Upsal. IV. 1: pi. 4; pi. 5, f. 1, as Cereus pasacana. 134 ThS cactaceae. Figure 191 is from a photograph taken by Dr. Rose near Comanche, Bolivia, in 1914;figure 193 shows a flower and figure 194 a fruit collected by Dr. Shafer near Andalgala,Argentina, in Fig. 193.—Flower of T. Fig. 194.—Fruit of pasacana. 6. Trichocereus bridgesii (Salm-Dyck). Cereus bridgesii Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 208. 1850. Cereus lagenaejormis Forster, Hamb. Gartenz. 17: 164. 1861. Cereus bridgesii brevispinus Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 108. 1897. Cereus bridgesii lageniformis Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 108. 1897. Cereus bridgesii longispinus Maass, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 15: 119. 1905. Cereus lasianthus Schumann in Rusby, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 365. 1907, as hyponym. Tall, 2 to 5 meters high, more or less branching, pale green, a little glaucous; branches 1 to in diameter, 4 to 8-ribbed; ribs obtuse, separated by broad but shallow intervals; areoles large,about 2 cm. apart; spines 2 to 6, yellowish, acicular to subulate, very unequal, sometimes 10 , not swollen at base; flowers large, 18 cm. long; flower-tube 5 to 6 cm. long; thr
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